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Powerstroke presentation at LGM 2012
by unknown＠example.com 18 May '12

18 May '12

Hi all, Quick note to tell that I uploaded my presentation about Powerstroke on our wiki. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PowerStroke#LGM_2012_Presentation I'm sad I had to leave so early and had no time for the party :'( :'( Ciao, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Mockup for Improvement of Fill and Stroke Dialog
by John Smith 17 May '12

17 May '12

> You can see my findings and my suggestion on the Wiki, but to entice you > to read it, the mockup is here :) > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Fill_and_Stroke_Dialog_Re-Design > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/File:Solution-fillandstrokedialog.p… > > Thanks and I would love to hear your comments! > Created a patch and screenshot for this in https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1000023

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Recursive Drawing
by daniele rossi 16 May '12

16 May '12

really interesting, thanks for sharing. Daniele Il giorno 16/mag/2012, alle ore 20.18, inkscape-devel-request@...349...orge.net ha scritto: > I just saw the video for a recursive drawing tool and thought you might find it interesting: http://recursivedrawing.com/ It seems like a very natural way for designing L-systems.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Recursive Drawing
by Valerie 16 May '12

16 May '12

That's pretty interesting. In fact, this and working on the GUI for tiling have made me think more about on-canvas templates in general. There's quite a bit of potential for just dropping stuff onto the canvas for various outcomes (you can turn them on and off). Possibilities include: 1. Clone/iteration templates: the render frame for the tiling tool is kind of like an on-canvas clone template, right? The link you provided could be an iteration template. Drop an iteration area, drop an object inside it, then manipulate the whole to activate iteration within the area. 2. Kinematic templates: "improves freehand drawing by altering the cursor's movements." More info at http://hci.uwaterloo.ca/research/kinematic (really cool stuff). 3. Deform templates An idea I've had recently: create a perspective grid (for example, over the side of a building), and if you grab and hover any object over it for a few seconds (example: a 2D window design), the object will have an automatic perspective deform applied to it. Moving the object along the grid behaves a bit like what happens with the 3D box tool. Also, when you draw straight lines within the area, they snap to the direction of the grid's vanishing points. Another deform template could be a mesh grid that you can edit before dropping some object onto it (example: a mesh grid to simulate a wavy flag. You can then drop the 2D design of any country flag onto it) Although some of it sounds more suited to 3D programs, a user could very well want to make a wavy flag in Inkscape, or some simple box icons with decorations on the side for example. 4. Render templates Basically things you would currently find under extensions -> Render in Inkscape (L-systems, trees etc.), except once they are on-canvas you can edit them there. Of course, although the ideas sound cool, programming would be another issue. And all that real-time rendering would totally kill a few CPUs.

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Ellipse text change in 11365
by Jon Cruz 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi John, The change in 11365 to shorten text when it gets too long looks great. Quite a handy feature, and very good to pull it out to its own function. What would make it even nicer would be to use C++ strings instead of C ones. In this case that could change the function declaration to be Glib::ustring gr_ellipsize_text(Glib::ustring const &src, size_t maxlen); Overall I thought this is also a good chance for us to call out a few specifics to the rest of the devs out there, as they might not know all the points you and I are already familiar with. For everyone out there, some reasoning for a few of those differences: * Glib::ustring and std::string manage their memory automatically, can share internal buffers, etc. Solves the huge issue of memory management with C strings. * Using Glib::ustring instead of std::string denotes the intent that the string contents have been standardized into UTF-8. Good to use Glib::ustring wherever applicable. * Passing in a reference to a constant Glib::ustring allows things to work, with automatic conversion even happening with gchar*'s being passed in. It also allows one to use .size() or .length() on the passed in parameter and not have to resort to strlen(). * Using size_t for sizes instead of guint. This is mainly a minor clarity point, but can matter for certain overloads, etc. And when we get to dealing with 32-bit vs. 64-bit code, using size_t for all sizes avoids a lot of problems. * Renaming to 'gr_ellipsize_text' (from 'gr_ellipse_text') changes it from a set of nouns to a verb. It's better to name methods and functions as verbs, and variables as nouns.

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Recursive Drawing
by Veronika 15 May '12

15 May '12

I just saw the video for a recursive drawing tool and thought you might find it interesting: http://recursivedrawing.com/ It seems like a very natural way for designing L-systems. Veronika

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Fwd: Re : Fw: Menu refresh
by Susan Spencer 14 May '12

14 May '12

It would also be helpful to add command line options: inkscape --preferences=mydefault_preferences.xml --template=mydefault_template.svg - Susan On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:46 AM, John Smith <john.smith7545@...36...>wrote: > Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Fw: Menu refresh

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Fw: Menu refresh
by John Smith 14 May '12

14 May '12

Any thoughts on changes to the main menu layout ? 1. Move "File->Inkscape Preferences" to "Edit->Preferences" This seems to be the preferred location in the Gnome HIG http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.4/menus-standard.html.en 2. Move "Edit->Clone" to "Object->Clone" Does this make more sense, since we are really cloning objects ? 3. Split View menu (including Show/Hide submenu) into 2 menus - View (UI "decorating" the main view) and Window (dockable dialogs) View->Grid View->Snap View->Commands Bar View->Toolbox View->Rulers View->Scrollbars View->Palette View->Status Bar ... etc Window->Icon Preview Window->Input Devices Window->Memory Window->Messages Window->Swatches Window->Show/Hide dialogs 4. Merge "File->Document Metadata" into "File->Document Properties"

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Active guides proposals
by Valerie 14 May '12

14 May '12

The fact that guide improvement is one of the projects accepted by Google Summer of Code projects is really good news! Guides are particularly helpful features in illustration programs. I thought it'd be a good time to write up some of the possibilities of guides. I doubt anyone can implement any of it anytime soon (certainly not before the current GSOC project is finished), but it might be helpful to keep these in mind to not close off future possibilities in the definitions or the GUI. Write-up here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Active_guide_proposals As you can see, features I think will can be particularly useful are: - Symmetry guides: by simply toggling them on and off, you can enter an improved "mirror" mode. Helpful for everything from complicated technical illustrations to just drawing some vases in some corner. - Convergence points: this could be a mere feature of a more general "guide point". When drawing straight lines, the lines would "snap" to the direction of one of the active convergence points. Anyone who's ever tried to illustrate a building in 2D or 3D should know how helpful this would be (because the vanishing points can be so far away from the rest of the drawing that it's really no fun to look for them every time). - More generally, guide points and guidelines could have various properties activated. Guidelines with "orthogonal" and "parallel" properties activated, for example, would cause straight lines drawn to snap in a direction orthogonal/parallel to said guidelines. Very helpful for geometric drawing. - Then there are kinematic templates (by Richard Fung). I don't know why this still hasn't been ported to any of the major open source image programs, but in Inkscape, they would be great fun when combined with the calligraphy tool. I can work more on the GUI proposal in the meantime, but I'm not sure where to go from here, so comments are welcome.

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Menu and keyboard shortcuts
by John Smith 12 May '12

12 May '12

Is there a reason Inkscape doesn't show the keyboard shortcuts in the main menu on Linux ? Keyboard shortcuts show up in the * Inkscape menus on Windows * Inkscape context menus on Linux * GIMP main menu on Linux ... so i'm guessing its not a GTK issue ?

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